so they passed this law to try to protect native american families from that happening. and now that is still in effect. because of that law, it allows a father like this who has abandoned the child legally, i mean, in the eyes of the law he he has abandoned her to step back in and say no, i want her after all. adoptive parents. >> bill: just because is he a native american. >> 3% native american. adopted parents say this can't be. guardian ad litem somebody appointed by the court to take a look at the situation. she says there is no question but that the best interest of this little girl are to stay with her loving, adoptive parents who have wanted her from day one. they are her adoptive father cut the um biblical cord. he paid the hospital bills. the couple provided nothing but love for this child from the day she was halfway through the pregnancy, never mind born. and the court said well, despite the best interest of the child, despite that, we're giving her to the father. and then, bill, when she was 27 months old, because the court proceedings were playing out, the